Check out our sunflowers!

We went out to check out our sunflowers this week and wow, we were surprised!

What Can Fly?

After looking at helicopter seeds and making our own helicopters, this week we used clay to brainstorm other things we knew that could fly. 

Autumn Discoveries!

Last week we went out collected Autumn leaves to do some leaf rubbings with crayons. These look very cool and we created a beautiful autumn tree on our back wall. 

At morning tea and lunch time the children of Room 4 went out exploring to see what else we could find. 

 We found some seeds

 We found some big long seed pods that looked like beans. They fell off the trees in the senior lunch area. 

We cut them open to see what was inside. 

 We made a mess! 

 We found some helicopters! We had fun throwing them around the classroom. Lucas N told us they come off the sycamore tree. 

 This got us thinking. How do they spin down to the ground like they do? Mana said it was because they had one wing that helped them fly. Noah knew there was a seed inside at the end and it's heavy so that's why it drops down. The wing is what makes it spin. 

We started trying to make our own helicopters with paper and seeds. Some of them even spun like the helicopters off the sycamore tree! 

We wanted to know what it would be like if we dropped them off somewhere high? Stay tuned for the next blog where we will talk about what happened when we visited the senior playground... 

Our Dream Home

Last week we borrowed Miss Powell's You Choose book, by Nick Sharratt. One page asked us "Which home would you choose? and it had lots of pictures of different kinds of homes. 

We sketched our ideal home in our provocation books and on Wednesday the AMAZING Sonya Beckley came in and helped us bring our sketches to life with clay! 

These look fantastic! Our visitors on Wednesday we certainly impressed! 

This is the third time we have used clay this year so we really wanted to think about how we could make our creation without it breaking when it dried. We used solid chunks of clay and even reinforced some bits with popsicle sticks inside. 

Come into Room 4 and check them out! They are proudly displayed on the round table by the door.